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dark, beautiful eyes, the falling, shining hair, the sweet s lips,

and lovely, placid face of old Between them, on three hassocks, sit

three little boys; while the fourth, and youngest, a ainst his htfully

in her sweet, calm face Of the fate of those four, the same ancient

lore affirms: "That the eldest afterward bore the title of Earl of

Kingsley; that the second beca equally highfalutin; and that the third becahest honor of all was reserved for the fourth, and youngest,"

continued the narrating voice, "who, after many days, sailed for

America, and, in the course of time, became President of the United

States"

Determined to be fully satisfied on this point, at least, the author

invested all her spare change in a catalogue of all the said Presidents,

froent and

absorbing perusal of that piece of literature, could find no such nasley whatever; and has been forced to coress to change his na in the

New World, or else that her infor reader a falsehood

when she told her so As for the rest, "I know not how the truth may be;

I say it as 'twas said to me"